In its new capital adequacy framework, the Basel Committee assigns market discipline an explicit and vital role as one of the three "pillars" of capital regulation along with minimum capital requirements and supervisory review of capital adequacy (BIS, 1999). Despite the growing recognition of market discipline's importance to banking soundness, the means by which it can best be achieved are still unknown. While the Basel Committee has called for adequate disclosure as a precondition for market discipline, disclosure alone is not enough. Incentives must exist for market agents to analyze available information and exercise discipline
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